inGuide — Interactive Guide

Author

Gomes Batista, Filipe Andre ; Rodrigues, Nelson ; Goncalves, Afonso

Author_Institution

Sch. of Technol. & Manage., Polytech. Inst. of Leiria, Leiria, Portugal

fYear

2013

fDate

19-22 June 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

This paper describes the inGuide - Interactive Guide application, a context-aware tourist guide that is presently available to Android smartphones. This application takes advantage of technologies such as Augmented Reality and geolocation in order to provide contextual information in a simple and interactive way. inGuide is a modular application which provides a package management system avoiding the need for a different version of the application for each city. Simultaneously it also surpasses one of the major hurdles related with mobile tourist applications, which is assuming always-on data connection and high speed network access.

Keywords

augmented reality; mobile computing; smart phones; travel industry; Android smartphones; always-on data connection; augmented reality; context-aware tourist guide; contextual information; geolocation; high speed network access; inGuide; interactive guide application; mobile tourist applications; package management system; Androids; Augmented reality; Cities and towns; Geology; Mobile communication; Servers; Smart phones; Augmented Reality; Geolocation; Interactive Guide; Tourism;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI), 2013 8th Iberian Conference on

Conference_Location

Lisboa

Type

conf

Filename

6615840